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Pasadena Convention Center
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The Pasadena Convention Center is a convention center in Pasadena, California, near Los Angeles, owned by the City of Pasadena. The Civic Auditorium, one of the structures in the Pasadena Civic Center District, was built in 1931 and is best known for being the home for the Emmy Awards from 1977 until 1997. It was designed by architects George Edwin Bergstrom, Cyril Bennett, Today, the Auditorium is home to the Peoples Choice Awards and the former home of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra. It has also used for some episodes of American Idol. It was used as the venue for Hollywood Week in season 10. The 3, 029-seat theater hosts musicals, operas and concerts, among other events, the venues theatre organ was acquired in 1979, having been commissioned in 1938 as a touring organ by Reginald Foort, who attended its inauguration on 23 April 1980. It was used by the BBC during and after World War II, in addition to the main auditorium, the Civic Auditorium building originally contained two lecture rooms and an exhibition hall of 100 by 200 ft. The Motown 25, Yesterday, Today, Forever special was taped here on March 25,1983, the show is best remembered for Michael Jacksons performance of Billie Jean in which he debuted his signature dance move the Moonwalk. Louis Armstrongs 1951 album Satchmo at Pasadena was also recorded here, the auditorium has also been used for the Miss Teen USA2007 pageant. The preliminary and final competitions were broadcast live on NBC and it also brought in for auditions of the 11th and 12th season of Americas Got Talent. The Pasadena Civic Auditorium will host the upcoming 44th Daytime Emmy Awards, the Exhibition Building features 31,200 sq ft of exhibit space and can seat up to 4,400 for various events. Adjacent to the Exhibition Building is a 15,000 sq ft annex seating up to 600 patrons, the Conference Building has 20 meeting rooms totaling 28,000 sq ft. List of convention centers in the United States Pasadena Convention Center The Pasadena Civic Auditorium

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Pasadena, California
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Pasadena /ˌpæsəˈdiːnə/ is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of 2013, the population of Pasadena was 139,731. Pasadena is the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County, Pasadena was incorporated on June 19,1886, becoming one of the first cities be incorporated in what is now Los Angeles County, the only one being incorporated earlier being its namesake. It is one of the cultural centers of the San Gabriel Valley. The city is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game, the original inhabitants of Pasadena and surrounding areas were members of the Native American Hahamog-na tribe, a branch of the Tongva Nation. They spoke the Tongva language and had lived in the Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years, Tongva dwellings lined the Arroyo Seco in present day Pasadena and south to where it joins the Los Angeles River and along other natural waterways in the city. The native people lived in thatched, dome-shape lodges and they lived on a diet of acorn meal, seeds and herbs, venison, and other small animals. They traded for fish with the coastal Tongva. They made cooking vessels from steatite soapstone from Catalina Island, the trail has been in continuous use for thousands of years. An arm of the trail is still in use in what is now known as Salvia Canyon. When the Spanish occupied the Los Angeles Basin they built the San Gabriel Mission and renamed the local Tongva people Gabrielino Indians, today, several bands of Tongva people live in the Los Angeles area. The Rancho comprised the lands of todays communities of Pasadena, Altadena, before the annexation of California in 1848, the last of the Mexican owners was Manuel Garfias who retained title to the property after statehood in 1850. Garfias sold sections of the property to the first Anglo settlers to come into the area, Dr. Benjamin Eaton, the father of Fred Eaton, much of the property was purchased by Benjamin Wilson, who established his Lake Vineyard property in the vicinity. Wilson, known as Don Benito to the local Indians, also owned the Rancho Jurupa and was mayor of Los Angeles and he was the grandfather of WWII General George S. Patton, Jr. and the namesake of Mount Wilson. Berry was an asthmatic and claimed that he had his best three nights sleep at Rancho San Pascual, to keep the find a secret, Berry code-named the area Muscat after the grape that Wilson grew. To raise funds to bring the company of people to San Pascual, Berry formed the Southern California Orange and Citrus Growers Association and sold stock in it. The newcomers were able to purchase a portion of the property along the Arroyo Seco and on January 31,1874. As a gesture of good will, Wilson added 2,000 acres of then-useless highland property, at the time, the Indiana Colony was a narrow strip of land between the Arroyo Seco and Fair Oaks Avenue

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John Forsythe
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John Forsythe was an American stage, film/television actor, producer, narrator, drama teacher and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades. He also appeared as a guest on talk and variety shows. Forsythes 60-year acting career began in films in 1943 and he signed up with Warner Bros. at age 25 as a minor contract player, but he later starred in films like The Captive City. He co-starred opposite Loretta Young in It Happens Every Thursday, Edmund Gwenn and Shirley MacLaine in The Trouble With Harry, and Olivia De Havilland in The Ambassadors Daughter. The eldest of three children, Forsythe was born as John, or Jacob, Lincoln Freund on January 29,1918, in Penns Grove, New Jersey, to Blanche Materson and Samuel Jeremiah Freund. Blanche was born in Pennsylvania, to David Hyat Blohm, a Russian Jewish immigrant, and to Mary S. Materson, Samuel was a stockbroker born in New York to Polish Jewish immigrants. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where his father worked as a Wall Street businessman during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn at the age of 16, in 1936 at the age of 18, he took a job as the public address announcer for Brooklyn Dodgers games at Ebbets Field, confirming a childhood love of baseball. Despite showing initial reluctance, Forsythe began a career at the suggestion of his father. He met actress Parker Worthington McCormick, and the couple married in 1939, they had a son, Dall, as a bit player for Warner Brothers, Forsythe successfully appeared in several small parts. As a result he was given a role in Destination Tokyo. Also in 1943, Forsythe met Julie Warren, initially a theatre companion, Warren became Forsythes second wife and in the early 1950s the marriage produced two daughters – Page and Brooke. In 1947, Forsythe joined the class of the soon-to-be prestigious Actors Studio. During this time he appeared on Broadway in Mister Roberts and The Teahouse of the August Moon, in 1955 Alfred Hitchcock cast Forsythe in the movie The Trouble with Harry, with Shirley MacLaine in her first movie appearance, for which she won a Golden Globe. Throughout the 1950s, Forsythe successfully appeared in the new medium and worked regularly on all the networks, for example, during this period, he appeared on the popular anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents in an episode titled Premonition opposite Cloris Leachman. Forsythe also starred in an episode of the CBS Western anthology series Zane Grey Theatre titled Decision at Wilsons Creek, the Forsythe Oak remains in place today, located on a private estate on the former Upper Iverson. The show was a ratings hit and moved to NBC the following season. On various episodes Forsythe worked with such up-and-coming actresses as Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara Eden, Donna Douglas, Sally Kellerman, Sue Ane Langdon, during the 1961 season, Bachelor Father was cancelled that season due to declining ratings

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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf

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Lorne Michaels
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He was born Lorne Lipowitz to Florence Becker and Henry Abraham Lipowitz, a furrier, in British occupied Palestine. They moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, while he was an infant and he has two younger siblings, a sister, Barbara Lipowitz, who currently resides in Toronto, and a brother, Mark Lipowitz, who died from a brain tumor. Michaels attended the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute in Toronto and graduated from University College, University of Toronto, Michaels began his career as a writer and broadcaster for CBC Radio. He moved to Los Angeles from Toronto in 1968 to work as a writer for Laugh-In and he starred with Hart Pomerantz in The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour, a Canadian comedy series which ran briefly in the early 1970s. During the late 1960s, Michaels began a relationship with Rosie Shuster and she was the daughter of Frank Shuster, one half of the famous comedy team, Wayne and Shuster. Michaels and Shuster were married in 1971 and divorced in 1980, in 1975 Michaels created the TV show NBCs Saturday Night, which in 1977 changed its name to Saturday Night Live. The show, which is performed live in front of an audience, immediately established a reputation for being cutting-edge. It became a vehicle for launching the careers of some of the most successful comedians in the United States, originally the producer of the show, Michaels was also a writer and later became executive producer. He occasionally appears on-screen as well, where he is known for his deadpan humor, throughout the shows history, SNL has been nominated for more than 156 Emmy Awards and has won 36. It has consistently been one of the highest-rated late-night television programs, Michaels has been with SNL for all seasons except for his hiatus in the early 1980s. She also appeared in a sketch about underage drinking when Zac Efron hosted the show, perhaps Michaels best-known appearance occurred in the first season when he offered the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on the show. He later upped his offer to $3,200, but the money was never claimed, according to an interview in Playboy magazine, John Lennon and Paul McCartney happened to be in New York City that night and wanted to see the show. They very nearly went, but changed their minds as it was getting too late to get to the show on time and this near-reunion was the basis for the TV movie Two of Us. On the November 20,1976 show, musical guest George Harrison appeared, Harrison tells Michaels his refusal to pay him his share is chintzy, and Michaels counters by saying, The Beatles dont have to split the money equally. They can give, say, Ringo less if they want, Michaels started Broadway Video in 1979, producing such shows as The Kids in the Hall. Shortly afterwards, citing burnout, he left Saturday Night Live and he returned to the show in 1985. During his SNL hiatus, Michaels created another show titled The New Show. The show failed to garner the same enthusiasm as SNL and lasted only 9 episodes before being cancelled, Michaels was identified as the anointed successor to Greene

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1988 Summer Olympics
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The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia, in the Seoul Games,159 nations were represented by a total of 8,391 athletes,6,197 men and 2,194 women. 263 events were held and 27,221 volunteers helped to prepare the Olympics,11,331 media showed the Games all over the world. These were the last Olympic Games for two of the worlds dominating sport powers, the Soviet Union and East Germany, as both ceased to exist before the next Olympic Games. North Korea, still officially at war with South Korea, and its allies, Albania, Ethiopia, Cuba, Madagascar, Nicaragua boycotted the games because of the U. S. military support to the Contra rebels. However, the much larger boycotts seen in the previous three Summer Olympics were avoided, resulting in the largest ever number of participating nations during the Cold War era, before the opening of the games, thousands of homeless were captured by the police and sent to work camps. Several died under torture. ′ Seoul was chosen to host the Summer Games through a vote held on 30 September 1981, below was the vote count that occurred at the 84th IOC Session and 11th Olympic Congress in Baden-Baden, West Germany. After the Olympics were awarded, Seoul also received the opportunity to stage the 10th Asian Games in 1986, Soviet Vladimir Artemov won four gold medals in gymnastics. Daniela Silivaş of Romania won three and equalled compatriot Nadia Comănecis record of seven Perfect 10s in one Olympic Games, to these medals, she added a gold in the 4×100 relay and a silver in the 4×400. Just after the Games, she announced her retirement, Canadian Ben Johnson won the 100 m final with a new world record, but was disqualified after he tested positive for stanozolol. Johnson has since claimed that his positive test was the result of sabotage, the US finishes in fourth place after the completion of the optional rounds with a combined score of 390.575, three tenths of a point behind the German Democratic Republic. The USSR won their team gold medals in artistic gymnastics on both the mens and womens sides with scores of 593.350 and 395.475 respectively. The mens team was led by Vladimir Artemov, while Elena Shushunova lead the womens team, lawrence Lemieux, a Canadian sailor in the Finn class, was in second place and poised to win a silver medal when he abandoned the race to save an injured competitor. He arrived in 21st place, but was recognized by the IOC with the Pierre de Coubertin medal honoring his bravery and sacrifice. U. S. diver Greg Louganis won back-to-back titles on both diving events, but only hitting the springboard with his head in the 3 m event final. This became a minor controversy years later when Louganis revealed he knew he was HIV-positive at the time, since HIV cannot survive in open water, no other divers were ever in danger. Christa Luding-Rothenburger of East Germany became the first athlete to win Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics and she added a cycling silver to the speed skating gold she won earlier in the Winter Olympics of that year in Calgary. Swimmer Kristin Otto of East Germany won six gold medals, other multi-medalists in the pool were Matt Biondi and Janet Evans

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Seoul
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The Seoul Capital Area houses up to half of the countrys population of 50.22 million people with 678,102 international residents. Situated on the Han River, Seouls history stretches back more than two years when it was founded in 18 BCE by Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. It continued as the capital of Korea under the Joseon Dynasty, the Seoul Capital Area contains five UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Changdeok Palace, Hwaseong Fortress, Jongmyo Shrine, Namhansanseong and the Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty. Seoul is surrounded by mountains, the tallest being Mt. Bukhan, in 2015, it was rated Asias most livable city with the second highest quality of life globally by Arcadis. In 2014, the citys GDP per capita of $39,786 was comparable to that of France and Finland. Ranked sixth in the Global Power City Index and Global Financial Centres Index, Seoul is the worlds most wired city and ranked first in technology readiness by PwCs Cities of Opportunity report. It is served by the KTX high-speed rail and the Seoul Subway, providing 4G LTE, WiFi, Seoul is connected via AREX to Incheon International Airport, rated the worlds best airport nine years in a row by Airports Council International. Lotte World Tower, a 556-metre supertall skyscraper with 123 floors, has built in Seoul and become the OECDs tallest in 2016. Its Lotte Cinema houses the worlds largest cinema screen, Seouls COEX Mall is the worlds largest underground shopping mall. Seoul hosted the 1986 Asian Games,1988 Summer Olympics,2002 FIFA World Cup, the Miss Universe 1980 pageant, a UNESCO City of Design, Seoul was named the 2010 World Design Capital. The city has known in the past by the names Wirye-seong, Hanju. During Japans annexation in Korea, Hanseong was renamed to Keijō by the Imperial authorities to prevent confusion with the hanja 漢, in reality, the ancient name of Seoul, Hanseong, originally had the meaning of big or vast. Its current name originated from the Korean word meaning city, which is believed to be derived from the word Seorabeol, which originally referred to Gyeongju. Unlike most place names in Korea, Seoul has no corresponding hanja, on January 18,2005, Seoul government officially changed its official Chinese language name to Shouer from the historic Hancheng, of which use is becoming less common. Settlement of the Han River area, where present-day Seoul is located, Seoul is first recorded as Wiryeseong, the capital of Baekje in the northeastern Seoul area. There are several city walls remaining in the area date from this time. Pungnaptoseong, a wall just outside Seoul, is widely believed to have been at the main Wiryeseong site. As the Three Kingdoms competed for this region, control passed from Baekje to Goguryeo in the 5th century

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South Korea
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South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. The earliest Korean pottery dates to 8000 BC, with three kingdoms flourishing in the 1st century BC and its rich and vibrant culture left 19 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity, the third largest in the world, along with 12 World Heritage Sites. Annexed into Imperial Japan in 1910, Korea was divided after its surrender in 1945, peace has since mostly continued with the two agreeing to work peacefully for reunification and the South solidifying peace as a regional power with the worlds 10th largest defence budget. South Koreas tiger economy soared at an average of 10% for over 30 years in a period of rapid transformation called the Miracle on the Han River. A long legacy of openness and focus on innovation made it successful, today, it is the worlds fifth largest exporter with the G20s largest budget surplus and highest credit rating of any country in East Asia. It has free trade agreements with 75% of the economy and is the only G20 nation trading freely with China, the US. Since 1988, its constitution guarantees a liberal democracy with high government transparency, high personal freedoms led to the rise of a globally influential pop culture such as K-pop and K-drama, a phenomenon called the Korean Wave, known for its distinctive fashionable and trendy style. Home of the UN Green Climate Fund and GGGI, South Korea is a leader in low carbon growth, committed to helping developing countries as a major DAC. It is the third least ignorant country in the Index of Ignorance, ranking eighth highest for peaceful tolerance. It is the worlds largest spender on R&D per GDP, leading the OECD in graduates in science, the name Korea derives from the name Goryeo. The name Goryeo itself was first used by the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo in the 5th century as a form of its name. The 10th-century kingdom of Goryeo succeeded Goguryeo, and thus inherited its name, the modern spelling of Korea first appeared in the late 17th century in the travel writings of the Dutch East India Companys Hendrick Hamel. After Goryeo was replaced by Joseon in 1392, Joseon became the name for the entire territory. The new official name has its origin in the ancient country of Gojoseon, in 1897, the Joseon dynasty changed the official name of the country from Joseon to Daehan Jeguk. The name Daehan, which means great Han literally, derives from Samhan, however, the name Joseon was still widely used by Koreans to refer to their country, though it was no longer the official name. Under Japanese rule, the two names Han and Joseon coexisted, there were several groups who fought for independence, the most notable being the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Following the surrender of Japan, in 1945, the Republic of Korea was adopted as the name for the new country. Since the government only controlled the part of the Korean Peninsula

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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States

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Showtime (TV network)
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The Showtime brand is used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to the group of eight multiplex channels in the United States. As of July 2015, Showtimes programming is available to approximately 28.693 million television households in the United States, the channel and its corresponding networks are headquartered at Paramount Plaza on the northern end of New York Citys Broadway district. The following week on July 8, Showtime launched on Viacom Cablevisions system in Dublin, California, the first program and television special to be broadcast on Showtime was Celebration, a concert special featuring performances by Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and ABBA. By the end of its first year on the air, Showtime had a total of 55,000 subscribers nationwide. On March 7,1978, Showtime became a nationally distributed service after it was uplinked to satellite, turning it into a competitor with HBO, in 1979, Viacom sold a 50% ownership interest in Showtime to the TelePrompTer Corporation. On July 4,1981, Showtime adopted a 24-hour programming schedule,1982 saw the premiere of Showtimes first made-for-cable movie Falcons Gold and its first original series and childrens program Faerie Tale Theatre. The three companies announced their agreement in principle to acquire interests in TMC on November 11,1982. Subsequently, in late December of that year, the U. S. Department of Justice launched a preliminary inquiry into the proposed partnership. On January 7,1983, Viacom International added itself as a partner, under the revised proposal, the four studios would each own a 22. 58% stake in the two networks, with American Express owning a 9. 68% minority interest. In addition, the consortium would appoint a management team separate from those employed by the two channels – which would continue to operate as separate services – to operate the joint venture, on August 10,1985, after Time Inc. and cable provider Tele-Communications Inc. The subsidiary was renamed Showtime Networks, Inc. in 1988, also in 1988, the company formed Showtime Event Television as a pay-per-view distributor of special event programming. In 1990, Showtime ventured into acquiring and premiering independent films exclusively for the channel as part of the 30-Minute Movie short film anthology series. One of its first premieres,12,01 PM, was nominated for an Academy Award, in the years that followed, Showtime expanded its acquisitions into the realm of feature-length fare, including the Adrian Lyne-directed 1997 remake of Lolita. In 2000, Showtime launched Showtime Interactive 24.7, a service that provided DVD-style interaction of its entertainment offerings. On June 14,2005, Viacom decided to separate itself into two companies, both of which would be controlled by Viacom parent National Amusements, amid stagnation of the stock price. A new company assumed the Viacom name kept Paramount Pictures, the MTV Networks and BET Networks cable divisions. Showtime broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on both Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules and this planned extension to the multiplex did not come to fruition – although a third multiplex service, Showtime 3, would make its debut in 1996. Three additional themed channels made their debut in March 2001, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next and Showtime Women do not have distribution by most pay television providers as extensive as the other Showtime multiplex channels

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The Wonder Years
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The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. It ran on ABC from 1988 until 1993, the pilot aired on January 31,1988, following ABCs coverage of Super Bowl XXII. The show achieved a spot in the Nielsen Top 30 for four of its six seasons, TV Guide named the show one of the 20 best of the 1980s. After only six episodes aired, The Wonder Years won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1988, in addition, at age 13, Fred Savage became the youngest actor ever nominated as Outstanding Lead Actor for a Comedy Series. The show was awarded a Peabody Award in 1989, for pushing the boundaries of the sitcom format. In total, the series won 22 awards and was nominated for 54 more, in 1997, My Fathers Office was ranked #29 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time, and in the 2009 revised list the pilot episode was ranked #43. In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked The Wonder Years #63 on its list of 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, in 2017, James Charisma of Paste ranked the shows opening sequence #14 on a list of The 75 Best TV Title Sequences of All Time. The series was conceived by writers Neal Marlens and Carol Black and they set out to create a family show that would appeal to the baby-boomer generation by setting the series in the late 60s, a time of radical change in Americas history. They also wanted the series to tie this setting in to the life of a boy growing up during the period. After writing the script for the episode, Marlens and Black began shopping the series to television networks. None of them were interested, except for ABC, with whom Marlens, Marlens had originally wanted the setting to be his native Huntington, Long Island, where he grew up. Elements were also taken from Blacks childhood from the White Oak section of Silver Spring, ABC, however, insisted that the location remain nonspecific. However, in Season 3, Episode 3, his vehicle registration and licensing letter was address to a 90230 zip code, Culver City. As the series was filmed in suburban Los Angeles, the bore a strong resemblance to the San Fernando Valley. When they started writing the series, Marlens and Black took a script for a film that they had been toying with. Black explained, We liked the concept that you could play with what people think and what theyre saying and they based the show, in part, on their own childhood growing up in the suburbs. Black recalled that we naturally elements of our experience and them into the pot, the basic setup, the neighborhood, the era - thats the time and place where we grew up. The search for the lead of the show did not take long

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John Larroquette
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John Bernard Larroquette is an American actor. He is currently playing Jenkins/Galahad in TNTs The Librarians, Larroquette was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Berthalla Oramous, a department store clerk who mostly sold childrens clothes, and John Edgar Larroquette, Jr. who was in the U. S. Navy. His grandfather John Larroquette Sr. was born in France and immigrated to the United States in 1895, Larroquette grew up in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans not far from the French Quarter. He played clarinet and saxophone through childhood and into high school and he discovered acting in his senior year of high school at Holy Cross. He moved to Hollywood in 1973 after working in radio as DJ during the days of underground radio. Larroquette met his wife Elizabeth Ann Cookson in 1974 while working in the play Enter Laughing and they were married July 4,1975, as that was the only day they had off from rehearsals. They have three children, Lisa, Jonathan, and Ben and their son Jonathan cohosts a comedy podcast called Uhh Yeah Dude. Larroquette battled alcoholism from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 10,2007, he joked, I was known to have a cocktail or 60. He stopped drinking February 6,1982, authors on whose works he has focused include Samuel Beckett, Charles Bukowski, Anthony Burgess, William Burroughs, David Foster Wallace, John Fante, Michael Ondaatje, and John Steinbeck. His first job in Hollywood was providing the voiceover narration for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Larroquette did this as a favor for the films director Tobe Hooper and his first series regular role was in the 1970s NBC program Black Sheep Squadron, where he portrayed a WWII United States Marine Corps fighter pilot named 2nd Lt. Bob Anderson. In a 1975 appearance on Sanford and Son, Larroquette plays Lamonts counterpart in a sitcom based on Fred and Lamont called Steinberg. During the filming of Stripes, his nose was cut off in an accident. He ran down a hall into a door that was supposed to open but did not, the role won him Emmy Awards in 1985,1986,1987, and 1988. In 1989, he asked not to be considered for an Emmy and his four consecutive wins were, at the time, a record. Night Court ran on NBC from 1984 until 1992, only Larroquette, Harry Anderson, and Richard Moll appeared in every episode of the series. There was talk of spinning Dan Fielding off into his own show, instead of a spinoff, Larroquette and Don Reo developed a show revolving around some of Larroquettes own personal demons, particularly alcoholism. The John Larroquette Show, named by the insistence of NBC, the show was lauded by critics and enjoyed a loyal cult following

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L.A. Law
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L. A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC, from September 15,1986, to May 19,1994. The series often also reflected social tensions between the senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. In addition to its main cast, L. A. Sanders, James Avery, Gates McFadden, Bryan Cranston, pounder, Kevin Spacey, Richard Schiff, Carrie-Anne Moss, William H. Macy, Stephen Root, Christian Slater, and Lucy Liu. Several episodes of the show included celebrities such as Vanna White, Buddy Hackett. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series. The series was set in and around the fictitious Los Angeles-based law firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, the exteriors for the law firm were shot at the Citigroup Center in downtown Los Angeles, which was known as the 444 Flower Building at the time. The show often combined humor and drama in the same episode. In the pilot episode of the series, only the back and hand of law partner Chaney, one of Chaneys final acts was to hire a new secretary, who began work on the morning Chaneys body is discovered. Later in that episode, in front of his partners, friends and his wife, the secretary at Chaneys eulogy reveals that she is transsexual, Chaney had been financially supporting her gender transition, and hired her as part of her real life test. She is then fired from her job by Douglas Brackman. This once caused problems when a client used him to set up her husband to be murdered, a running gag during Harry Hamlins tenure was to have his character, Michael Kuzak, always shown picking, scrutinizing, and eating pastries or fruit at the morning staff meetings. He was the one who ate from the mountains of food provided. To some extent, the sexual peccadilloes of almost the entire cast would become fodder for episodes of the series. After Grace van Owen makes a comment that Michael Kuzak would have to be a monkey before shed be interested in him, Douglas Brackman becomes involved with a sex therapist. Benny Stulwicz, an intellectually disabled clerk at the office, has sex with the disabled daughter of a client of the firm. Leland McKenzie and Rosalind Shays, antagonists, secretly become lovers, Douglas Brackman, their boss, is also arrested in the mayhem of the riots as he is on his way to get remarried. In one scene later in the series, the writers enacted an inside joke, in her final scene, the character of Rosalind Shays steps into the empty shaft and falls to her death. The name Chaney remains in the name of the law firm, despite changes in personnel

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Thirtysomething
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Thirtysomething is an American television drama about American baby boomers who are now in their thirties. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, although seen as an ensemble drama, the series revolves around husband and wife Michael Steadman and Hope Murdoch and their baby Janie. Michaels cousin is photographer Melissa Steadman who used to date his college friend Gary Shepherd Ph. D, Michaels business partner is Elliot Weston, who has a troubled marriage with his wife Nancy, a painter. Hopes childhood friend is the local politician Ellyn Warren, Michael Steadman and Hope Murdoch Steadman, Hope is from Philadelphia and Michael is from Chicago but remained in the area after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Hope is a graduate of Princeton and a consumer affairs writer, after having their daughter Janie, she becomes a stay-at-home mother, initially giving up her writing. Later in the series, she returns to work but struggles with her role as a mother in the process, during a difficult period in her marriage, Hope contemplates having an affair with environmentalist John Dunaway. Michaels confrontation with her over this infatuation leads them to resolve their problems, Michael and Hope are also an interfaith couple, a fact that was referenced throughout the series. Michael, whose ambition was to be a writer, works in advertising with graphic designer Elliot. They first meet at the Bernstein Fox ad agency and then leave to form The Michael, when their company goes bankrupt, Michael and Elliot join the advertising corporation, DAA, run by Miles Drentell. Michaels relationship with Miles erodes his marriage with Hope who finally decides to accept a job in Washington D. C, at the time the show was cancelled, Michael decided to quit work altogether so that Hope could pursue her own interests. Elliot Weston and Nancy Krieger Weston, Elliot studied graphic design at RISD and his father Charlie is divorced from Elliots mother and now lives in California. Elliots sister Ruthie, who lives in Philadelphia and is married with two children, hasnt forgiven their father for leaving them. He works in the business with Michael. Nancy was also an Art major and is a mother to Ethan. Like Hope, she initially feels bored and unhappy in her role as a homemaker, after Elliot has an affair which lreds to their divorce, Nancy develops a career as a childrens book illustrator and author and begins to teach at a local art center. Elliot becomes jealous after she begins to date other men. Eventually, they rekindle their relationship and remarry, during the final two seasons, Nancy struggles with, but ultimately overcomes, ovarian cancer, which deepens their marriage. Always a rebel, Elliot can never reconcile himself to Miles preference for Michael and his own loss of work at DAA. Michael does not accept the job, but briefly entertains the possibility of developing a company again with Elliot that will make commercials

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Cagney & Lacey
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Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25,1982 to May 16,1988. The series was set in a version of Manhattans 14th Precinct. For six consecutive years, one of the two actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama, a winning streak unmatched in any major category by a show. Producer Barney Rosenzweig was influenced by the feminist movement through his then-girlfriend Barbara Corday, after learning through Haskell that there had never been a female buddy film, Rosenzweig sought to make one, a comedy initially titled Newman & Redford. Avedon & Corday wrote the script, no studio wanted to make the film, so Corday considered taking it to television. Rosenzweig took the script, removed the plot, and took it to all networks. The movie was picked up as a series, first airing with six episodes as a midseason replacement in the spring of 1982. Barney Rosenzweig and Barbara Corday initially refused to change Christine Cagney from a tough, witty, shortly into Glesss tenure on the program, Rosenzweig and Corday compromised with the network brass. Charles and Maureen soon separated after Christine and her brother Brian were born, Al Waxman co-starred as Cagney and Laceys good-natured and sometimes blustery supervisor, Lt. Bert Samuels. Carl Lumbly, and Martin Kove played, respectively, fellow detectives Marcus Petrie, Sidney Clute played veteran detective Paul La Guardia. John Karlen co-starred as Mary Beths husband, Harvey Lacey, and Tony La Torre and Troy Slaten played their sons, Harvey Lacey, Jr. and Michael Lacey, Harvey Atkin played desk sergeant Ronald Coleman. Jason Bernard originally had the role of Deputy Inspector Marquette during the first two seasons. When the show was back in March 1984 following its second cancellation. Inspector Knelman, who lasted the duration of the series, in the fourth season, Christine entered into a relationship with Sgt. Dory McKenna, who battled a drug addiction, after a tumultuous courtship, Christine left him and soon after took up with a more stable suitor, David Keeler, a local attorney. One of the most significant cast changes occurred early in the season, upon the death of Sidney Clute in October 1985. LaGuardia had retired from the 14th Precinct and had moved to New Jersey with a new female companion less than half his age, Clute had completed filming a few episodes of the 1985-86 season prior to his death. In his honor, the producers kept Clutes name in the credits for the rest of the series

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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The program featured American televisions first never-married, independent career woman as the central character. It is one of the most acclaimed television programs in US television history and it received high praise from critics during its run, including Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series three years in a row, and continued to be honored long after the final episode aired. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked The Mary Tyler Moore Show No.6 in its list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time. Mary Richards is a woman who, at age 30. She applies for a job at television station WJM. She is instead offered the position of associate producer of the stations Six OClock News and she befriends her tough but lovable boss Lou Grant, newswriter Murray Slaughter, and buffoonish anchorman Ted Baxter. Mary later becomes producer of the show, Mary rents a third-floor studio apartment in a 19th-century house from acquaintance and downstairs landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom, and she and upstairs neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern become best friends. Characters introduced later in the series are acerbic, man-hungry TV hostess Sue Ann Nivens, at the beginning of season 6, after both Rhoda and Phyllis have moved away, Mary relocates to a one-bedroom high-rise apartment. In the third season, issues such as pay for women, pre-marital sex. In the fourth season, such subjects as marital infidelity and divorce are explored with Phyllis and Lou, in the fifth season, Mary refuses to reveal a news source and is jailed for contempt of court. While in jail, she befriends a prostitute who seeks Marys help in a subsequent episode, Mary dates several men on and off over the years, two seriously, but remains single throughout the series. In 1995, Entertainment Weekly said that TVs most famous bachelorette pad was Marys apartment, the fictitious address was 119 North Weatherly, but the exterior establishing shots were of a real house in Minneapolis at 2104 Kenwood Parkway. In the real house, an unfinished attic occupied the space behind the window recreated on the studio set of Marys apartment. Once fans of the series discovered where exterior shots had been taken, according to Moore, the woman who lived in the house was overwhelmed by the people showing up and asking if Mary was around. To discourage crews from filming footage of the house, the owners placed an Impeach Nixon sign beneath the window where Mary supposedly lived. The house continued to attract 30 tour buses a day more than a decade after production ended, at the time of Mary Tyler Moores death, on January 25,2017, the Kenwood Parkway house was for sale at $1.7 million. Mary Richards, a single native Minnesotan, moves to Minneapolis in 1970 at age 30 and her sincere, kind demeanor often acts as a foil for the personalities of her co-workers and friends. Lou Grant is the Producer of the news and his tough and grumpy demeanor initially hides his kind-hearted nature which is gradually revealed as the series progresses

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The Daily Show
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The Daily Show is an American news satire and late-night talk show television program. It airs each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central, describing itself as a fake news program, The Daily Show draws its comedy and satire from recent news stories, political figures, media organizations, and often uses self-referential humor as well. The half-hour-long show premiered on July 21,1996, and was first hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 17,1998, Stewart was succeeded by Trevor Noah, whose tenure premiered on September 28,2015. Under different hosts, the show has been known as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1999 until 2015. The Daily Show is the program on Comedy Central, and has won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards. Critics chastised Stewart for not conducting sufficiently hard-hitting interviews with his political guests, Stewart and other Daily Show writers responded to such criticism by saying that they do not have any journalistic responsibility and that as comedians their only duty is to provide entertainment. Stewarts appearance on the CNN show Crossfire picked up this debate, each episode begins with announcer Drew Birns announcing the date and the introduction, From Comedy Centrals World News Headquarters in New York, this is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Previously, the introduction was This is The Daily Show, the most important television program, the host then opens the show with a monologue drawing from current news stories and issues. Some episodes will begin with a 1-3 minute intro on a story before fully transitioning into the main story of the night. Their stated areas of expertise vary depending on the story that is being discussed. They typically present absurd or humorously exaggerated takes on current events against the straight man. While correspondents stated to be reporting abroad are usually performing in-studio in front of a background, on rare occasions. For instance, during the week of August 20,2007, in August 2008, Riggle traveled to China for a series of segments titled Rob Riggle, Chasing the Dragon, which focused on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. On July 19,2016, Roy Wood Jr. reported live from the Republican National Convention, topics have varied widely, during the early years of the show they tended toward character-driven human interest stories such as Bigfoot enthusiasts. Since Stewart began hosting in 1999, the focus of the show has more political. Under Kilborn and the years of Stewart, most interviewees were either unaware or not entirely aware of the comedic nature of The Daily Show. However, as the show began to gain popularity—particularly following its coverage of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections—most of the subjects now interviewed are aware of the comedic element, some segments have recurred periodically throughout different tenures, such as Back in Black & Your Moment of Zen. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a segment of the show has been dubbed Mess O Potamia, focusing on the United States policies in the Middle East

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The Golden Girls
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The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14,1985, to May 9,1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning over seven seasons. The show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and it was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Harris served as the original executive producers. The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of its run and won several awards and it also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Each of the four received a Emmy Award, making it one of only three sitcoms in the awards history to achieve this. The series also ranked among the top-10 highest-rated programs for six of its seven seasons, in 2013, TV Guide ranked The Golden Girls number 54 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. In 2014, the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 69 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, the series revolves around four older, single women sharing a house in Miami, Florida. In the pilot episode, the three were joined by Dorothys 80-year-old mother, Sophia Petrillo, after the retirement home where she lived burned down. The pilot episode featured a gay character named Coco, who worked as a cook for the women, after six consecutive seasons in the top 10, and the seventh season at number 30, The Golden Girls came to an end when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. In the hour-long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy meets and marries Blanches Uncle Lucas, Sophia was to join her, but in the end, Sophia stays behind with the other women in Miami, leading into the spin-off series, The Golden Palace. The series finale was watched by 27.2 million viewers, as of 2016, it was the 17th-most watched television finale. Stan and Dorothy eventually moved to Miami, but divorced after 38 years when Stan left her for a flight attendant. According to the timeline presented, Dorothy and Stan would have had three children, with their oldest son or daughter near 40 by the beginning of the series. However, due to a lack of continuity in the writing, Michael and Kate were repeatedly shown as being in their 20s during the run of the show, thus not being old enough to be the child with whom Dorothy got pregnant in high school. In the series episode, Dorothy marries Blanches uncle, Lucas Hollingsworth. Arthur also played Dorothys grandmother, Sophias mother, in an episode to when they lived in Brooklyn. Upon Charlies death, she moved to Miami and she eventually found work at a grief counseling center, though she later ended up as the assistant to a consumer reporter at a local TV station. In later seasons, Rose became romantically involved with college professor Miles Webber, during season six, Miles was placed into the Witness Protection Program, but returned later in the season. Their relationship continued throughout the series, and shortly into the sequel series, in season one, Rose is stated to be 55

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All in the Family
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All in the Family is an American sitcom TV-series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979. The following September, it was replaced by Archie Bunkers Place, the show is often regarded in the United States as one of the greatest television series of all time. It became the first television series to reach the milestone of having topped the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive years, the episode Sammys Visit was ranked number 13 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ranked All in the Family as number four, bravo also named the shows protagonist, Archie Bunker, TVs greatest character of all time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked All in the Family the fourth-best written TV series ever, All in the Family is about a typical working-class family living in Queens, New York. Its patriarch is Archie Bunker, an outspoken, narrow-minded white man, Archies wife Edith is sweet and understanding, though somewhat naïve and uneducated, her husband sometimes disparagingly calls her dingbat. Their one child, Gloria, is kind and good-natured like her mother. Gloria is married to college student Michael Stivic – referred to as Meathead by Archie – whose values are likewise influenced and shaped by the counterculture of the 1960s, the two couples represent the real-life clash of values between the so-called Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers. For much of the series, the Stivics live in the Bunkers home to save money, the show is set in the Astoria section of Queens, with the vast majority of scenes taking place in the Bunkers home at 704 Hauser Street. The house seen in the opening is at 89-70 Cooper Avenue near the junction of the Glendale, Middle Village, supporting characters represent the demographics of the neighborhood, especially the African American Jeffersons, who live in the house next door in the early seasons. Carroll OConnor as Archie Bunker, Frequently called a lovable bigot, a World War II veteran, Archie longs for better times when people sharing his viewpoint were in charge, as evidenced by the nostalgic theme song Those Were the Days. His ignorance and stubbornness seem to cause his arguments to self-destruct. He often rejects uncomfortable truths by blowing a raspberry, scott Brady, formerly of the Western series Shotgun Slade, also declined the role of Archie Bunker, but appeared four times on the series in 1976 in the role of Joe Foley. OConnor appears in all but seven episodes of the series run, Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker, née Baines, Edith is Archies ditzy but kind-hearted wife. Despite their different personalities, they love each other deeply, Stapleton remained with the show through the original series run, but decided to leave before the first season of Archie Bunkers Place had wrapped up. At that point, Edith was written out as having suffered a stroke and died off-camera, Stapleton appeared in all but four episodes of All in the Family and had a recurring role during the first season of Archie Bunkers Place. In the series first episode, Edith is portrayed as being less of a dingbat and even refers to her husband as Mr. Religion. After they come home from church, something her character would not be expected to say later, sally Struthers as Gloria Stivic, née Bunker, The Bunkers college-aged daughter is married to Michael Stivic

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Will & Grace
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Will & Grace is an American sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan about the relationship between best friends Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler, a straight interior designer. It was broadcast on NBC from September 21,1998 to May 18,2006, during its original run, Will & Grace was one of the most successful television series with gay principal characters. Despite initial criticism for its portrayal of homosexual characters, it went on to become a staple of NBCs Must See TV Thursday night lineup and was met with continued critical acclaim. It was ensconced in the Nielsen top 20 for half of its network run, the show was the highest-rated sitcom among adults 18–49, from 2001 and 2005. Throughout its eight-year run, Will & Grace earned 16 Emmy Awards and 83 nominations, all four stars each received an Emmy Award throughout the series, making it one of only three sitcoms in the awards history to achieve this feat. In 2014 the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 94 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV series of all time. Since the final episode aired, the sitcom has been credited with helping and improving public opinion of the LGBT community, vice President Joe Biden commenting that the show probably did more to educate the American public on LGBT issues than almost anything anybody has ever done so far. In 2014 the Smithsonian Institution added an LGBT history collection to their museum which included items from Will, the curator Dwight Blocker Bowers stated that the sitcom used comedy to familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture that was daring and broke ground in American media. When the set was removed in April 2014, rumours came up about a cast reunion and it was merely moved to Emersons new center in Los Angeles. A long-running legal battle between both the executive producers and creators and NBC took place between 2003 and 2007. All seasons of the series have released on DVD and the show has been broadcast in more than 60 countries. On September 26,2016, the cast reunited for a 10-minute special, after the success of the 10-minute reunion special, NBC announced that the network is exploring the idea of putting Will & Grace back into production. In January 2017, NBC confirmed the return, for a ten-episode ninth season. The episode order was increased to 12 on April 5,2017, will & Grace is set in New York City and focuses on the relationship between Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a Jewish woman who owns an interior design firm. Also featured are their friends Karen Walker, a socialite, and Jack McFarland. The interplay of relationships features the trials and tribulations of dating, marriage, divorce and casual sex, as well as comical key stereotypes of gay and he is very precise and obsessive when it comes to certain tasks, especially cleaning, dressing, and decorating. However, Will does have a patient and compassionate nature towards those close to him. Even though Will is gay, he not to be too overt

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55th Primetime Emmy Awards
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The 55th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 21,2003. The ceremony was broadcast on Fox, the Sci Fi channel received its first major nomination this year for Outstanding Miniseries for Taken, for which it won. For its seventh season, Everybody Loves Raymond won its first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and it led all comedies with four major wins and ten major nominations. The West Wing won Outstanding Drama Series for the fourth consecutive year, for the first time since 1991, the Outstanding Drama Series field did not include Law & Order, it was nominated 11 times in the category, a record for drama series that still stands. The mark tied the record held by comedy series M*A*S*H. Notes Emmys. com list of 2003 Nominees & Winners 2003 Emmy Awards at the Internet Movie Database

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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town

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66th Primetime Emmy Awards
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The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U. S. prime time television programming from June 1,2013 until May 31,2014, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony was held on Monday, August 25,2014, at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California, comedian and Late Night host Seth Meyers hosted the ceremony for the first time. The nominations were announced on July 10,2014, the scheduling of the Primetime Emmy Awards is coordinated with that of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, which was held the previous weekend on August 16,2014. Breaking Bad was the winner of the night, with five wins. Modern Family won its fifth consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, the Amazing Race won its tenth Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program as well. Other major winners of the night were Sherlock, His Last Vow, American Horror Story, Coven, the ceremony was held on a night other than Sunday for the first time since 1976. NBCs ideal date on the 2014 calendar for the led to the other scheduling factor — MTVs Video Music Awards. On January 28,2014, rather than go head-to-head with the VMAs, NBC announced that the ceremony would take place on Monday, the ceremonys weeknight date and start time —5,00 p. m. On November 14,2013, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that it would implement online voting for its members to select the nominees. However, online voting to determine the winners will not be used until 2015, the Academy had also announced changes to several awards and categories that affect both the Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Changes for the Primetime Emmy Awards involved separating the Outstanding Miniseries or Movie category into two entities—Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Television Movie, the two were combined in 2011, due to a downtrend in the genres. This separation is only for the category with all other awards in the category remaining combined between the two formats. The Academy also introduced two new categories—Outstanding Structured Reality Program and Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, there was also an increase in the number of longform nominees in writing, directing and performing categories for miniseries/movie as well as a change in their final voting procedures. Despite its departure from its normal telecast schedule, the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards received 15.59 million viewers, emmys. com list of 2014 Nominees & Winners Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website 2014 Emmy Awards at the Internet Movie Database

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PBS
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The Public Broadcasting Service is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor. PBS is funded by member dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, government agencies, corporations, foundations. All proposed funding is subjected to a set of standards to ensure the program is free of influence from the funding source, since the mid-2000s, Roper polls commissioned by PBS have consistently placed the service as the most-trusted national institution in the United States. This arbitrary distinction is a frequent source of viewer confusion and it also operates National Datacast, a subsidiary which offers datacasting services via member stations, and provides additional revenue for PBS and its member stations. In 1973, it merged with Educational Television Stations, each station is charged with the responsibility of programming local content for their individual market or state that supplements content provided by PBS and other public television distributors. By contrast, PBS member stations pay fees for the acquired and distributed by the national organization. Under this relationship, PBS member stations have greater latitude in local scheduling than their commercial broadcasting counterparts, scheduling of PBS-distributed series may vary greatly depending on the market. This can be a source of tension as stations seek to preserve their localism, however, PBS has a policy of common carriage, which requires most stations to clear the national prime time programs on a common programming schedule to market them nationally more effectively. Management at former Los Angeles member KCET cited unresolvable financial and programming disputes among its reasons for leaving PBS after over 40 years in January 2011. Most PBS stations timeshift some distributed programs, once PBS accepts a program offered for distribution, PBS, rather than the originating member station, retains exclusive rebroadcasting rights during an agreed period. Suppliers retain the right to sell the program in non-broadcast media such as DVDs, books, in 1991, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting resumed production for most PBS shows that debuted prior to 1977, with the exceptions of Washington Week in Review and Wall Street Week. In 1994, The Chronicle of Philanthropy released the results of the largest study on the popularity and credibility of charitable, the strategy began that fall, with the intent to expand the in-program breaks to the remainder of the schedule if successful. In 2011, PBS released apps for iOS and Android to allow viewing of videos on mobile devices. An update in 2015 added Chromecast support, PBS initially struggled to compete with online media such as YouTube for market share. In a 2012 speech to 850 top executives from PBS stations, in the speech, later described as a “seminal moment” for public television, he laid out his vision for a new style of PBS digital video production. Station leadership rallied around his vision and Seiken formed PBS Digital Studios, which began producing educational but edgy videos, something Seiken called “PBS-quality with a YouTube sensibility. ”The studio’s first hit, in 2012, PBS began organizing much of its prime time programming around a genre-based schedule. PBS broadcasts childrens programming as part of the morning and afternoon schedule. Unlike its radio counterpart, National Public Radio, PBS does not have a program production arm or news division

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Rumpole of the Bailey
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Rumpole of the Bailey was a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an elderly London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, the TV series led to the stories being presented in other media including books and radio. The Bailey of the title is a reference to the Central Criminal Court, while certain biographical details are slightly different in the original television series and the subsequent book series, Horace Rumpole has a number of definite character traits that are constant. First and foremost, Rumpole loves the courtroom, a devotee of Arthur Quiller-Couchs Oxford Book of English Verse, he often quotes Wordsworth. He privately refers to his wife Hilda as She Who Must Be Obeyed and his skill at defending his clients is legendary among the criminal classes. The Timson clan of minor villains regularly rely on Rumpole to get out of their latest bit of trouble with the law. Rumpole is proud of his handling of the Penge Bungalow Murders alone and without a leader early in his career and of his extensive knowledge about bloodstains. Cross-examination is one of his activities, and he disdains barristers who lack either the skill or courage to ask the right questions. His courtroom zeal gets him into trouble from time to time, often, his investigations reveal more than his client wants him to know. Rumpoles most chancy encounters stem from arguing with judges, particularly those who seem to believe that being on trial implies guilt or that the police are infallible. Rumpole enjoys smoking cigars, drinking cheap red wine, and indulging in a diet of fried foods, overboiled vegetables, cheese-and-tomato sandwiches. His cigar smoking is often the subject of debate within his Chambers, despite his affection for the criminal classes, Rumpoles character is marked by a firm set of ethics. He is a believer in the presumption of innocence, the Golden Thread of British Justice. He often reinforces this by proclaiming that it is better for 10 guilty men to go free than for one innocent to be convicted, Rumpoles never plead guilty credo also prevents him from making deals that involve pleading guilty to lesser charges. Rumpole also refuses to prosecute, feeling it important to defend the accused than to work to imprison them. Some of Rumpoles clients feel that things would have been better for them if they had found guilty. And there, Mortimer realised, I had Rumpole, in the television series, where Rumpole first appeared, there is some consistency with regard to Rumpoles backstory. The original play is set in 1974, and Rumpole states that he is 64 years old, Rumpoles Oxford Book of English Verse is inscribed Horace Rumpole, Little Wicks School 1923

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The Bourne Identity (1988 film)
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The Bourne Identity is a 1988 American mystery thriller television movie adaptation of Robert Ludlums novel The Bourne Identity. The film adaptation was written by Carol Sobieski, directed by Roger Young for Warner Bros, television with Richard Chamberlain in the title role, along with Jaclyn Smith. It follows the storyline of the novel, with a run-time of 3 hours 5 min. With commercials added, the time was extended to four hours. The film was first shown on ABC in two installments over two nights. The film was the last TV film for both Anthony Quayle and Denholm Elliott, the book was adapted again in 2002 by Doug Liman starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, launching the Bourne series of theatrical films, with considerable deviations from the original Cold War novel. It was followed later by a new series of Bourne best sellers written by Eric Lustbader with the permission of the Ludlum estate, the films plot exhibits some differences from that of the novel by Ludlum. The undercover identity of Jason Bourne is simplified, in the book and film, David Webb, because of his amnesia, believes himself to be Jason Bourne and an assassin called Cain. Alexander Conklin is accidentally shot by his own people when attempting to kill Bourne, in the novel he survives, in the books ending, Carlos escapes in the confusion, whereas in the film he is killed in the climactic battle with Bourne. The Bourne Identity at the Internet Movie Database

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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate

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Cheers
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Cheers is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from September 30,1982 to May 20,1993, with a total of 270 half-hour episodes spanning over eleven seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television, the show was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar named Cheers in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, the shows main theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy lent its famous refrain Where Everybody Knows Your Name as the shows tagline. After premiering on September 30,1982, it was canceled during its first season when it ranked almost last in ratings for its premiere. Cheers, however, eventually became a highly rated show in the United States, earning a top-ten rating during eight of its eleven seasons. The show spent most of its run on NBCs Thursday night Must See TV lineup and its widely watched series finale was broadcast on May 20,1993, and the shows 270 episodes have been successfully syndicated worldwide. Nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series for all eleven of its seasons on the air, the character Frasier Crane was featured in his eponymous spin-off show, which aired until 2004 and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major and minor Cheers characters. During its run, Cheers became one of the most popular series of all time and has received critical acclaim. In 1997, the episodes Thanksgiving Orphans and Home Is the Sailor, aired originally in 1987, were respectively ranked No.7, in 2002, Cheers was ranked No.18 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the eighth best written TV series, before the Cheers pilot Give Me a Ring Sometime was completed and aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees in the first script. Neither Norm Peterson nor Cliff Clavin, regular customers of Cheers, were featured, in later years, Woody Boyd replaces Coach, who dies off-screen in season four to account for actor Nicholas Colasantos death. Frasier Crane starts as a character and becomes a permanent character. In season six, they added a new character Rebecca Howe, Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in an episode of season four, Second Time Around. After she appears in two episodes in five, she becomes a recurring character, and later featured as a permanent one for season ten. Ted Danson portrays Sam Malone, a bartender and an owner of Cheers, before the series began, he was a baseball relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox nicknamed Mayday Malone until he became an alcoholic, harming his career. He has an on-again, off-again relationship with Diane Chambers, his class opposite, during their off-times, Sam has flings with many not-so-bright sexy women, yet fails to pursue a meaningful relationship and fails to seduce other women, such as intellectuals. After Diane is written out of the series, he tries to pursue Rebecca Howe, at the end of the series, he is still unmarried and recovering from sexual addiction with a help of Dr. Robert Suttons group meetings, advised by Frasier. Shelley Long portrays Diane Chambers, an academic, sophisticated graduate student, in the pilot Diane is abandoned by her fiancé, leaving her without a job, a man, or money

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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown

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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time

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Night Court
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Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4,1984, to May 31,1992. The setting was the shift of a Manhattan municipal court, Criminal Court Part 2, presided over by a young, unorthodox judge. The series was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s. Night Court, according to the first season DVD, was created without comedian/magician Harry Anderson in mind, Anderson had developed a following with his performances on Saturday Night Live and made several successful appearances as con man Harry the Hat on another NBC sitcom, Cheers. In later seasons, while Anderson remained the key figure, John Larroquette became a popular personality winning a number of awards, the comedy style of Night Court changed as the series progressed. During its initial seasons, the show was compared to Barney Miller. But, while the characters appearing in the courtroom were often whimsical, bizarre or humorously inept, in an early review of the show, Time magazine called Night Court, with its emphasis on non-glamorous, non-violent petty crime, the most realistic law show on the air. Gradually, however, Night Court abandoned its initial real world setting, in the opening episode of Season 4, a ventriloquist dummy talks on his own without the ventriloquist to Dan, who panics and shouts while backing away slowly down the hall. When asked by Harry why they claimed West Virginia at first, Bob replies and it was just the first exotic place that popped into my head. The Wheelers were notoriously unlucky and were brought in on hilariously pathetic circumstances. He was very young for a new judge, being only 34 when he took the bench at Criminal Court Part 2 and his zany antics and goofball sense of humor were tempered by infinite compassion and sincere belief that everyone had good in them. Harry could be a little self-righteous at times, but more often than not was the compass of the show. Harry loved movies and fashions from the 1940s, was vocal in his disdain for modern music, the public defenders, Gail Strickland as uptight by-the-book public defender Sheila Gardner. Paula Kelly as Liz Williams, prior to the addition of Mac to the show, ellen Foley as Billie Young, a public defender and potential romantic interest for Harry Stone during Season 2. Post had been Reinhold Weeges first choice for the part but due to her other commitments could not take it, the Sullivan character was attractive, honest to a fault, and somewhat naïve. She was the romantic interest for Stone and a regular target for Dan Fieldings lechery throughout the series run. She had various Princess Diana memorabilia collections such as a set of porcelain thimbles and it was hinted that he frequented dominatrices. He was the source of witty and sometimes cruel remarks regarding almost every other character

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Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)
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Beauty and the Beast is an American fantasy-drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherines emotions, and becomes her guardian, the series follows the developing relationship between the characters and the division between New York and the hidden world beneath it. In a twist from the tale, however, this beast does not transform into societys idea of beauty after gaining the love of Catherine. Rather, Vincents inner beauty is allowed to remain the focus of who he is, in the third season after the death of the character Catherine, Jo Anderson became the new female lead playing Diana Bennett, a criminal profiler investigating Catherines murder. George R. R. Martin, who would write the A Song of Ice. In 2004 and 2007, Beauty and the Beast was ranked #14 and #17, respectively, Catherine Chandler is abducted, beaten, slashed and left to die in Central Park because she was inadvertently mistaken for somebody else. She is rescued and cared for by Vincent who has taken her to Father, ten days later, Catherine returns to the surface with the promise of keeping Vincents secret and the challenge to go on after her terrible attack. Her first action involves her asking Carol Stabler about those men that attacked her, when Catherine is attacked by Martin Belmonts men, she is saved by Vincent, who mauls the men. More people from the World Above turned up for emotional support, near the end of the season however, in an effort to boost faltering ratings, the action orientation returned as a result of the misleadings of the recurrent villain Paracelsus. In a cliffhanger episode, Catherine is seen walking down a tunnel into a chamber. When the series returned for its third season late in 1989. It was a decision that, along with the desire to attract more male viewers. She was killed, but not before giving birth to Vincents son, Catherines boss and close friend Joe Maxwell hired Diana Bennett, a criminal profiler with the police department, to track down Catherines killer. Quite naturally, her investigation led her to the now darkly obsessed. Catherine Chandler – A corporate attorney in her fathers law firm, after shes abducted, beaten, and her face slashed upon being mistaken for Carol Stabler, Catherine was rescued and tended to by Vincent. After that experience, Catherine changes her completely and becomes an investigator for the Manhattan District Attorneys Office. In Season Three, Catherine becomes pregnant with Vincents child and is captured by Gabriel and she is later killed by Gabriel who overdoses her with morphine. Vincent – A man of extremely large build with the characteristics of a lion

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St. Elsewhere
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St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama black comedy television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26,1982, to May 25,1988. St. Known for its combination of gritty, realistic drama and moments of black comedy, the series also earned critical acclaim during its run, earning 13 Emmy Awards for its writing, acting, and directing. St. Elsewhere was ranked No.20 on TV Guides 2002 list of The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, in 2013, TV Guide ranked the series #51 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. St. Elsewhere was set at fictional St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Bostons South End neighborhood, just as in Hill Street Blues, St. The staffs problems, and those of their patients, were often contemporary in nature, with storylines involving breast cancer, AIDS, the producers for the series were Bruce Paltrow, Mark Tinker, John Masius, Tom Fontana, John Falsey and Abby Singer. Tinker, Masius, Fontana, and Paltrow wrote a number of episodes as well, other writers included John Tinker, John Ford Noonan, Charles H. Eglee, Eric Overmyer, Channing Gibson, and Aram Saroyan. The shows main and end title theme was composed by famed jazz musician, noted film and TV composer J. A. C. Redford wrote the music for the series, St. Elsewhere ran for six seasons and 137 episodes, the first season aired Tuesdays at 10 p. m. with remaining seasons airing Wednesdays at 10 p. m. St. Elsewhere was noteworthy for featuring episodes with unusual aspects or significant changes to the status quo. Some of those included, Original air date, November 9,1983 Dr. Morrison learns of the death of his wife, Nina. Ninas heart is donated to a heart transplant patient—a patient of Dr. Craig, the poignant final scene of the episode finds Morrison entering the patients room and, with a stethoscope, hearing the patients new heart—Ninas heart—steadily beating. Eligius two years earlier for the birth of her baby, the scene ends with Westphall announcing to his two colleagues that he has decided to leave St. Eligius and medicine, a short-lived departure as Westphall would return in the Season 4 premiere. Original air date, February 19 and 20,1986 This two-part episode featured storylines that fleshed out the 50-year history of St. Eligius, the storylines included the hospitals 1936 founding by Fr. TV Guide ranked Time Heals #44 on its 1997 list of 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time, calling the episode a masterwork of dramatic writing. As the staff try to save him, Fiscus ventures back-and-forth between Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, where he has a conversation with God, who presents Himself as a spitting image of Fiscus. Just as Fiscus shakes hands with Lou Gehrig, his colleagues successfully revive him back to Earth, Original air date, May 27,1987 In the season-five finale, all attempts to save St. Eligius from closing seem to have failed. As demolition begins, a frail Dr. Auschlander, accidentally left in the hospital after a relapse, Original air date, September 30,1987 St. Eligius is saved, but it falls under the new ownership of Ecumena Corporation, a national managed health care concern. This scene, which would normally be considered controversial, was preserved by NBCs censors as they did not consider Westphalls display to be erotic in nature

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Irving Berlin
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Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. His music forms a part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song, Marie from Sunny Italy, in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights and he also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. Alexanders Ragtime Band sparked a dance craze in places as far away as Berlins native Russia. In doing so, said Walter Cronkite, at Berlins 100th birthday tribute, he helped write the story of country, capturing the best of who we are. He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which him a legend before he turned thirty. During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including Easter Parade, White Christmas, Happy Holiday, This Is the Army, Mr. Jones, and Theres No Business Like Show Business. His Broadway musical and 1942 film, This is the Army, Celine Dion recorded it as a tribute, making it no.1 on the charts after the September 11 attacks in 2001. In 2015, pianist and composer Hershey Felder began touring nationwide as a show, portraying Berlin. Composer George Gershwin called him the greatest songwriter that has ever lived, Berlin was born on May 11,1888, in Tolochin, Russian Empire. He was one of eight children of Moses and Lena Lipkin Beilin and his father, a cantor in a synagogue, uprooted the family to America, as did many other Jewish families in the late 19th century. In 1893 they settled in New York City, as of the 1900 census, the name Beilin had changed to Baline. By daylight the house was in ashes, as an adult, Berlin said he was unaware of being raised in abject poverty since he knew no other life. Tsar Alexander III of Russia and then Tsar Nicholas II, his son, had revived with utmost brutality the anti-Jewish pogroms, which created the spontaneous mass exodus to America. When they reached Ellis Island, Israel was put in a pen with his brother and his Yiddish-speaking family eventually settled on Cherry Street, a windowless cold-water basement flat in the Theater District of the Lower East Side. His father, unable to find work as a cantor in New York, took a job at a kosher meat market and gave Hebrew lessons on the side

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Late Night with David Letterman
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Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC that was created and hosted by David Letterman. It premiered on February 1,1982, as the first incarnation of the Late Night franchise and ran until 1993, the series was then reformatted as Late Night with Conan OBrien, with Jimmy Fallon later taking over from OBrien as host. Late Night continues to air as of 2017 with Seth Meyers as host, in 2013, this series and Late Show with David Letterman were ranked #41 on TV Guides 60 Best Series of All Time. In 1981, NBC and Carson, after significant acrimony, reached an agreement on a new contract, Time slot Monday through Thursday, with occasional specials every few Fridays, all aimed at young men. The network wanted to capitalize on catering to young males, feeling there was very little late-night programming for that demographic. The newly announced show thus displaced the Tomorrow Coast to Coast program hosted by Tom Snyder from the 12,30 slot. NBC initially offered Snyder to move his show back an hour, the final first-run Tomorrow episode aired on December 17,1981. The staff responsible for preparing Late Night consisted of Lettermans girlfriend Merrill Markoe in the head writing role, Markoe and Letterman broke up in 1988 and Markoe left for California, resulting in Steve ODonnell taking over the position. Other key personnel included seasoned TV veteran Hal Gurnee directing the program, Jack Rollins as executive producer. The plan from the start was to resurrect the spirit of Lettermans morning show for a late-night audience, after a brief monologue, the very first comedy segment was a sarcastic tour of the studio. The first guest, Bill Murray, came out in fashion, throwing jibes. The second guest was Don Herbert, TVs Mr. Wizard, and the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fessler reciting aloud the script of the obscure Bela Lugosi film Bowery at Midnight. The reviews were mixed – Los Angeles Times wrote, Much of Lettermans first week did not jell – but more importantly, eccentric and awkward, the show immediately established a sensibility that was clearly different from The Tonight Show. Carson, for his part, wanted Late Night to have as little overlap with his show as possible, in fact, most ground rules and restrictions on what Letterman could do came not from the network but from the production company itself. Letterman could not have a sidekick like Ed McMahon, and Paul Shaffers band could not include a horn section like Doc Severinsens. Letterman was told he could not book old-school showbiz guests such as James Stewart, George Burns, or Buddy Hackett, Letterman was also specifically instructed not to replicate any of the signature pieces of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson like Stump the Band or Carnac the Magnificent. Carson also wanted Letterman to minimize the number of jokes in his opening monologue. So, in 1993, Letterman and his moved to CBS and Late Show with David Letterman was born

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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was an American comedy and variety show television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969. Despite this success, continual conflicts with network executives over content led to the show being abruptly pulled from the schedule in violation of the Smothers contract in 1969, the evolution of The Comedy Hour was unique to a medium that was fearful of change. The show debuted in the winter of 1967 as a hip version of the typical comedy-variety show of its era. But within weeks it rapidly evolved into a program that extended the boundaries of what was considered permissible in television satire, the show also introduced audiences to pop singer Jennifer Warnes, who was a regular on the series. The television premiere of Mason Williams hit record, Classical Gas, took place on the show, the series showcased new musical artists that other comedy-variety shows rarely gave airtime to, due to the nature of their music or their political affiliations. Seegers appearance on the two premiere which aired on September 10,1967 was his first on network commercial television in 17 years since being blacklisted in 1950. His performance of Waist Deep in the Big Muddy was dropped from the broadcast after his refusal to comply with CBSs request to remove the sixth verse. The song, its related to the present by the controversial stanza, was a metaphor for President Lyndon B. Johnson. Seeger was eventually allowed to reappear on the show to perform the song again on Episode 24 later that season, in 1968, the show broadcast several promotional films for The Beatles songs Hey Jude and Revolution and Bee Gees. Before a rowdy crowd at the Los Angeles Forum, Jimi Hendrix dedicated I Dont Live Today to the Smothers Brothers, the show became both popular and controversial for those same references to youth culture and the issues that both interested and affected this particular target audience. The brothers soon found themselves in conflicts with CBS network censors. At the start of the 1968–69 season, the ordered that the Smothers deliver their shows finished. As the year progressed, battles over content continued, including a David Steinberg sermon about Moses and the Burning Bush. With some local stations making their own deletions of controversial sketches or comments, the network explained the decision by stating that because that weeks episode did not arrive in time to be previewed, it would not be shown. In that program, Joan Baez paid tribute to her then-husband David Harris, when the show finally did air, three weeks later, the network allowed Baez to state that her husband was in prison, but edited out the reason. Despite the conflict, the show was picked up for the 1969–70 season on March 14, however, the episode was aired in Canada on CTV on a pre-release which was a common occurrence at that time. Another of the presidents, Robert Wood, stated that it became evident that the brothers were unwilling to accept the criteria of taste established by CBS. This cancellation led the brothers to file a breach of contract suit against the network, despite this cancellation, the show won the Emmy Award that year for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy, Variety or Music

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The Tracey Ullman Show
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The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show starring Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5,1987, as the Fox networks second prime-time series after Married, with Children, and ran until May 26,1990. The show is produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television, the show blended sketch comedy shorts with many musical numbers, featuring choreography by Paula Abdul. By the 1980s, acclaimed television producer James L. Brooks, had left the industry for the big screen. At the time that he won the Oscar for his film, Terms of Endearment, Brooks began receiving videotapes from Ullmans Los Angeles agent, hoping to get his attention. Ullman, who was famous in her homeland, England, was already landing a variety of television deals and proposals in America. These projects did not suit Ullmans interests, shows with morals, where everyone learns something at the end of the show, related Ullman to a television critic for TV Guide in 1989, describing the television show ideas that were offered to her. Brooks was so taken by what he saw in Ullman that he decided to take the young actress under his wing, Brooks was determined to develop the right vehicle to showcase Ullmans talents — acting, dancing, and singing — and decided to create a sketch comedy show. A typical episode would begin with Ullman giving an introduction, ostensibly from her dressing room. Then two or three comedy sketches would be presented in episode, most designed to showcase Ullmans ability to skillfully mimic various accents. One popular recurring character was timid, slow-talking Kay Typically, the sketch of the night would include a musical and/or dance number featuring Ullman solo or other members of the cast. The final segment saw Ullman, clad in a robe, deliver a monologue to the studio audience before ending the show with her catchphrase Go Home. Go Home. and dancing as the credits rolled, Ullman often talked about her husband, Allan McKeown, and her daughter, Mabel. Ullman chose the phrase, Go home, during the pilot episode because she could not think of anything clever to end with. Ullman performed an array of characters, most only appeared once, as the sketches concentrated on plot, with characters created to best tell that particular storyline. A handful of characters did return for subsequent sketches. Among the recurring characters portrayed by other cast members, besides those mentioned, were Gulliver Dark, singer and rival to Marty Tish, and Dr. Alexander Gibson. In the course of its four season run, Ullman performed a total of 108 characters, the Tracey Ullman Show regularly featured short animated cartoons as interstitials in the first three seasons

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Showtime logo, used from 1984 to 1997; a 3D circle containing a TV screen (which was originally used as the channel's primary logo dating back to 1979) was used alongside this logo from 1984 to 1990. This logo was also used on Showtime Australia until 2009.